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  Is 2020 was the year, India supposed to become a superpower? Unfortunately, it got left behind. Always there was hope, if all else failed, the promise of 2020 was there. It offered a target and even offered a plan of action. Through all the ups and downs of the middle years, from 1998, when  India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium  was published,  it became a guide to the future. It offered a strong vision that, as 2020 ends, India would be Superpower in two decades but the dream still survives. Back in 1998, India even could not meet global standards of human development.  Wondering!, how did Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam have such extreme thoughts about India conquering the world? Far from it, in fact, two years then India is not Superpower. Sadly it was an inaccurate prediction, rather year 2020 has been a disaster for India and the whole world. Is still a chance to take this mission in hands of Indians? Let's forget about yesterday, think and thought about today...

December 29 th , 2019. There were still many memories and presents of the recent Christmas, and more excitement for the upcoming New Year. It was going to be just another year, as we all thought, there would be much more resolutions, trips, and promises we shall fulfill this year. But this day marked the start of another dark page in the history of mankind. The corona outbreak, starting its way from China, continued the disrupts all around the world. From first-world countries to the very poor, it did not discriminate. The TVs were flooded with news reporting the number of deaths, nearly every minute. Death cast a spell upon us, in the most unexpected way.   But what had caused it? Why was, after millions of years of inventions and so-called leading every other species of this planet, a tiny microorganism destructing the root of this glorious species? Was it because one man didn’t know bats were inedible? Was it just another country’s plan to rise up to the top? All of the reasons ...